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Written shortly after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, April 14, 1865.
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Walt Whitman |
C. M. Wyman 46, 47 |
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Joaquin [Cincinnatus Hiner] Miller |
Arr. from the German 47, 48 | |
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Richard Henry Stoddard |
U. Munjinger 49 | |
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John Greenleaf Whittier |
Christian Gottlob Neefe 50 | |
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Bayard Taylor |
Christoph Willibald Gluck 51, 52 | |
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Bayard Taylor |
Friedrich Silcher 53 Air: Die Lorelei.
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William Cullen Bryant |
German air 54, 55 | |
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Bayard Taylor |
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz 56, 57 | |
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Suggested by a morning walk on the Battery in New York, and the sight of ships and small
craft under full sail.
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Epes Sargent |
Henry Russell 58 |
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John Greenleaf Whittier |
Johann André 59 | |
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John Greenleaf Whittier |
German air 60, 61 | |
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Edgar Allan Poe |
61 | |
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First sung in an opera written by Sir Henry Bishop, produced in Covent Garden Theatre, London, in 1823. The author, who was all his life a wanderer, has been called "the homeless bard of home."
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John Howard Payne |
Sicilian air 62 |
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Marshall S. Pike |
Marshall S. Pike 63 | |
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George Howland |
Scotch air 64 | |
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Lucy Larcom |
German air 65 | |
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Richard Watson Gilder |
Franz Abt 66, 67 | |
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William E. Hickson |
German air 67 | |
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Coates Kinney |
Johann Gottlieb Naumann 68 | |
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The author heard a friend make an appeal voicing the sentiment of the song. On payment of ten dollars the woodman signed a bond to spare the tree.
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George Pope Morris |
Johann Adam Hiller 69 |
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The well is still standing in Scituate, Mass., the birthplace of the author.
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Samuel Woodworth |
G. Kiallmark 70 |
